How to Use alarming in a Sentence

alarming

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• Here is my vote for the most alarming part of the Browns this season – the defense.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2022
• Stoops has not shied away from shouldering his starting quarterback with some of the blame for an alarming sack rate, too.
  — The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2022
• Millions of dollars are being raked in while wild sage populations are being culled at an alarming rate.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
• The parallels with the beginning of the opioid crisis are alarming.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2022
• And if Russia’s nuclear threat was not enough, Kim Jong-un reared his head again this week in an alarming show of force.
  — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Coos County and others on the coast are also grappling with an alarming shortage of affordable housing.
  — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
• Pollinators like bees and butterflies, which provide one out of every three bites of our food, are struggling as their populations decline at an alarming rate.
  — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
• Health-care restrictions: For trans rights supporters, among the most alarming types of laws to gain ground in the last two years are gender-affirming care restrictions for trans youth.
  — N. Kirkpatrick, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• Especially alarming is the accelerating cost of shelter, the largest component of the consumer-price index and one where trends tend to persist.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• Then, an unidentified voice interjected with alarming news: Lawmakers on the House floor had begun putting on tear gas masks in preparation for a breach.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 13 Oct. 2022
• One of the most alarming myths is that AI and facial recognition software work autonomously, making decisions without human oversight.
  — Dara Riordan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• But at the start of the third year, a bone scan was alarming.
  — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• So yes, the French right is bad, and its rise is alarming.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• One of the most alarming side harms, and one of the most-discussed, are the wounds that xylazine use can cause.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Killings in the city and around the country began an alarming spike in 2020.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
• That’s alarming for the prospects of a just transition.
  — Morgan R. Frank, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The White House bulletin on the health of Woodrow Wilson was alarming.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• The teen is part of an alarming trend among the country's K-12 students.
  — Leigh Paterson, NPR, 18 May 2024
• Sweeney plays Claire, who shows up at the doorstep of her mother, Kate (Moore), in an alarming state.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to a new study, the news there is alarming as well.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 July 2024
• Lisa, it’s a little bit alarming to see the difference in the big cities.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
• In the 1960s, heroin use in the United States was rising at an alarming pace.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The data showed an alarming 937% increase in babies over the past decade.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 24 June 2024
• An alarming new study in the journal Nature shows how bad the problem could get in 32 coastal cities in the United States.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• Most alarming to some are the dire news stories about a violent new gang.
  — Martin Kaste, NPR, 9 May 2024
• The numbers have been alarming: In December, just 1,281 pounds of crawfish moved through the dock.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• No dressing gown and Uggs for you, no zit stickers and alarming hair in a scrunchie.
  — Daisy Jones, Glamour, 4 Nov. 2024
• South Korea’s birth rate has reached alarming new lows.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023
• Nothing alarming came from the NFL’s new kickoff rules.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
• Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate.
  — Tom Krishner, oregonlive, 9 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024